Inaba Lab

Mayu Inaba

Principal Investigator

Email:moguro@uchc.edu

I am fascinated by the effects and consequences of the different scale of the "time" in biology: for example, how cellular composition shifts over an animal’s lifetime and how genes and gene expression evolve to enable adaptation to changing environments over millions of years. Our research focuses on to answer these questions by using Drosophila gonads.

Emma Kristine Beard

Graduate Student

Email: beard@uchc.edu

Emma’s project examines the stage-specific expression and localization of retrotransposon RNA in spermatocytes. Specific focuses include how expression of these transposons is regulated and the effect of retrotransposon RNA on nuclear architecture and gene expression.

Sophia Bizink

Graduate Student

Email: bizink@uchc.edu

Sophia's project is to identify the mechanism how BMP signal from soma to germline regulates mitochondria morphology in spermatocytes.

McKenna Elise Rook

Graduate Student

Email: mrook@uchc.edu

Mckenna is investigating unconventional regulation of mRNA during asymmetric stem cell division and differentiation.

Jeffrey Gamer

Research Assistant (Bioinformatics)

Email: gamer@uchc.edu

Jeff is looking for how transposon insertions are diverged in Drosophila melanogaster and closely related species.

Shriya Rai Chennavajhula

Glastonbury Highschool

Shriya’s project focuses on mechanisms of sperm quality control in Drosophila.

Josh Fernandes 

Undergraduate Student (Summer intern)